D-handle



Sept; 20,1927. 1,642,994

C. L. HERTEL D-HANDLE Filed July 16, 1926 INVENTOR.

Carl L H9116],

A TTORNEYS desired form so long Patented 'se ezo, 1927,

. UNITED "STATES PATENT OFFICE,

, CA D LHERTEL, 0F COLUMBUS, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR T0 CARL L. HERTEL AND EDWARD KITZINGER, or COLUMBUS, INDIANA, A COPARTNERSHIP.

I ID-HANDLE.

App1ication filed July 16,

My inventionrela tes to an improvement in D-handles.

It has heretofore been proposed to make a D-handle out of two mating stampin gs, which, at one end were each provided with a grip receiving socket and at the other end with a half stale-receiving socket but difliculty has been heretofore experienced in holding the two stampings together under 10 the stresses to which thestructure, issubjected when the tool is'being used.

My improvement is of such character that "the two mating stampings may be readily assembled'within my improved retaining thimble, the tapered end of the stale serving to ,firmly hold the parts in assembled condition. y

- The accompanying drawingsillustrate my invention. Fig; 1, is a side elevation of my improved handle in partial section, Fig. 2,

a perspective view of one of the handle stampings,Fig. 3. a perspective view of the thimble. g

In the drawings 10 indicates the mating handle stampings or handle section formed most conveniently of metal stampings each having a grip receiving socketll at one end and a stale-receiving half-socket 12 at the other end.- i V j 39 -Myimproved thimble comprises a tubular conical main portion'l3, adapted to receive and retain the half sockets 12 of members 10 and the end strap orbridle let adapted to over-lap the junction of the two elements 10 I the thimble being cut away at 15, '15 at each side of the strap 14 in such manner as to permit'insertion therethrough' of the half sockets 12. v v

"The'adjacent edges 16 of the half sockets 49 12 are slightly flared from each other to facilita'te assembly of the parts.

It will, of course, be readily understood that the handle elements 10, 10 need not be hollow stampings but may be of any other asthey provide the half V stale-sockets 12.

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pered end of the stale into the socket formed by the two half sockets 12 thus forcing the elements 10 into close engagement with the strap 14L and spreading the half sockets 12 firmly into the tapered main body 13 of the thimble; whereupon the parts may be firmly held in place by means of rivets 17 passed through the thimble, the half sockets and the stale. Q A

The parts may be further secured together, if desired, bypassing a bolt 18 through the outer end ofele-ment 10 and the grip'19. V i

I claim as my invention V V 1. A D-handle comprising a pair of mating handle elements each having a half stale socket at one end, and an embracing thimble for 'said half sockets, said thimble having openings ateach side at one end through which the stale receiving half sockets of the V handle elements may be projected into the thimble,'and an adjacent portion over-lapping the-handle elements diametrically of the thimble.

2. A D-handle comprising a pair of mating handle elements each having a halt stalesocket at one end and a thimble comprising a sleeve portion adapted to sleeve over the stale-sockets and a bridle portion carried at one end of the sleeve portion, said bridle portion being spaced from the sleeve portion so that the stale sockets may be projected into the sleeve portion and the bridle portion will overlie the adjacent portions of V the handle elements substantially as shown and described.

In witness whereof, "I' have hereunto set my hand at Indianapolis, Indiana, this 13th day of July, A. D. one thousand nine hundred and twenty six.

' CAR-L L. HERTEL. 

